Thursday, July 30, 2009

Constant Conversation With God 7/28 Tue

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life A Constant Conversation With You!

I Hope HUGE To Be Found In You, To BE a Christian and not just settle for doing Christianity! Lord, I hope to find a place of complete surrender to You, right now so that You may be my ALL in my everything this day! Glory! Nothing can separate me from Your love as I diligently guard my heart, keeping it completely pure and wholly true to You...I cling to Your promised love that is everlasting… having no dead end!

Father Touch Penny G bring her into total submission to You, be the LORD of her all and everything. Bring peace to her soul.

Father be with Cindy H, bring peace to her soul and give the doctors the right wisdom for her dad, heal her dad, body, soul and spirit.

Jesus make a way for Downtown Live, by Your Provision of Favor. Touch Steve, Emily, Brandon, Natalia, Ernest, Sarah, Bob and I and give us Your wisdom and favor to build serving groups to be used by God for this vision. Jesus. So Be It. I pray for Your Protection to cover all of this and us. Jesus.

Father God, keep us submitted to You today in our all and everything. May we walk yielded to Your Will in Your Powerful-Patience!

Father God touch each one of us today by Your Spirit of Compassion, that we might be just like You, encouraging-loving all.

Lord, I hope to find a place of complete surrender to You, right now! Be my ALL in my everything this day-I hope to glow Your Glory.

AWE-SOME GOD! Mighty God, I pray You would reign in us this day. Be our 1st choice today in our all and everything. Jesus!

Jesus touch each one of us this day, be glorified in us. Glow Your Glory In Us Through Us!

Jesus I pray that every blessing You give us today, we will in turn TALK IT UP in praise to You. Jesus!

Jesus shape my heart this day, break my selfish plans so all of me is less - the ALLNESS of Your Love-Will-Kingdom is more-most!

Take my will to the foot of the cross, so all that I am is humbled, willess- ready to go where You are today!

Jesus, we think we can make a way without You, yet the truth is we are so lost without You. Be our 1st choice today!

Bible Reading… Reflections….Insights…Revelations

Isaiah 48:10

Tested in the Furnace of Affliction

"And now listen to this, family of Jacob, you who are called by the name Israel: Who got you started in the loins of Judah, you who use God's name to back up your promises and pray to the God of Israel?

But do you mean it? Do you live like it? You claim to be citizens of the Holy City; you act as though you lean on the God of Israel, named God-of-the-Angel-Armies. For a long time now, I've let you in on the way I work: I told you what I was going to do beforehand, then I did it and it was done, and that's that. I know you're a bunch of hardheads, obstinate and flint-faced, So I got a running start and began telling you what was going on before it even happened. That is why you can't say, 'My god-idol did this.' 'My favorite god-carving commanded this.' You have all this evidence confirmed by your own eyes and ears. Shouldn't you be talking about it? And that was just the beginning. I have a lot more to tell you, things you never knew existed. This isn't a variation on the same old thing. This is new, brand-new, something you'd never guess or dream up. When you hear this you won't be able to say, 'I knew that all along.' You've never been good listeners to me. You have a history of ignoring me, A sorry track record of fickle attachments— rebels from the womb. But out of the sheer goodness of my heart, because of who I am, I keep a tight rein on my anger and hold my temper. I don't wash my hands of you. Do you see what I've done? I've refined you, but not without fire. I've tested you like silver in the furnace of affliction. Out of myself, simply because of who I am, I do what I do. I have my reputation to keep up. I'm not playing second fiddle to either gods or people.

Lord I am clinging to this promise and hoping huge in You, that You will direct our paths during these days where it is so hard to know what to do. Thank you for showing us up to this point our direction. I thank you for the wisdom You are going to give us, the directional wisdom that we need so desperately right now. Jesus!

Isaiah 48:16-19

Your Progeny, Like Grains of Sand

16-19And now, the Master, God, sends me and his Spirit with this Message from God, your Redeemer, The Holy of Israel: "I am God, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go. If you had listened all along to what I told you, your life would have flowed full like a river, blessings rolling in like waves from the sea. Children and grandchildren are like sand, your progeny like grains of sand. There would be no end of them, no danger of losing touch with me."

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. -- A. W. Tozer

I will praise the Lord who counsels me- even at night my conscience instructs me. 8 I keep the Lord in mind always. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my spirit rejoices; my body also rests securely. 10 For You will not abandon me to Sheol; You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay. 11 You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

From The Heart Of A United States Marine Mom To A United States Marine Wife:

What I feel, I will not chase, What I know I will Cling Too! Jesus Is My Hope-Truth-Provision-Protection-Peace! I share my feelings, yet I act on the truth I know! My feelings are: Afghanistan! No! I don't want him to go there either!! Both deployments there were hard and very dangerous, but both deployments also had miraculous elements to them where God saved him in miraculous ways. In some ways though, I don't think anywhere is safe for anyone, so I am not going to try to put a value on Afghanistan over other places. Our country is no longer very safe either and everyday it is getting worse, so maybe God just wants us all to learn to lean on His Protection everyday in every way. I mean ask the town in Alabama where Tina lived where the 11 people were killed by one person, people just sitting on their porches or walking downtown. This whole world is a war zone!!

I am so like you, when I hear of him maybe going to Afghanistan, my battle begins in my emotions and I have to choose, am I going to let this lay me out flat or am I going to rise up live my life today and purposefully make a difference for God, because just like him, this could be my last day here on earth. So what am I going to do with it?

I have to be honest, some days are better than others, some days I am just laid out flat, other days I am up and fighting the good fight of faith. What I have learned is sometimes you just have to "do it afraid"... do life, even though you are scared silly for the one you love so dearly. The thing I prayed for the most and if he gets sent to Afghanistan again, is for courage. Because I can't be a robot, I can't not feel, I can't shut off who I am. I know, he has gone there twice and I felt fear every day, but I made up my mind, my heart, my spirit to be God's and to walk out my life in "courage" and not let my fear, disable me... but drive me to make my life count day by day.

You see I looked at it this way. Afghanistan is just as much a spiritual battle as USA, same enemy, really... We will fight the same fight, a spiritual warfare... we fight the same enemy and we have the same common denominator... Our Powerful Lord God! You have to settle your fear about death, about losing the one you love, that is the first thing.

How did I do that? I realized that my life belongs to God, my time is in His hand. Today could be my last day on earth, but I have a future and a hope... yes I do! My son is not mine. He belongs to God. I cannot control his destiny or number his days. My husband is not mine, I cannot control the number of days God has given him. He belongs to God. I decided way back when (the second Afghanistan Tour) that I was going to serve God completely. I was going to let go of the time tables, of my plans, of my wants and I was going to fight, face my fears every day with the Promises of God, lean on them, expect them, and hope huge in them. I was going to despite my situation (him being in Afghanistan) fight hard by clinging to God harder, digging my roots deeper in His love, fight hard every single day to make my life count, to leave a legacy of love, encouragement and hope that day, to take up my cross and courageously be Christ's no matter how I felt... I was going to conquer my fear of him being in Afghanistan.

Every day I got up with anxiety, fear of him dying that day, I laid out before God, I did not move until I had His promise, His hope....

Yes, It is going to be (damn) hard but you will rise above it, because you have the same Jesus Christ in you that I have and I know He will grow you through as He has me and as He will me this next tour. Do I like it? No! I hate it! I hate it with a passion, BUT God has called him to be a US Marine, a warrior for righteousness and he is used mightily in that role. He is a fierce tender warrior, He is The Motivator of his troops, He is courage at its best, He is encouragement, peace and there is not any one better that I would want to defend the freedom of this country.

Why because God rises up in him at times like that because he is in God's Will, doing His purpose. Could he get killed? Yes He could. Will He? I don't know. But you better believe I am praying and hoping huge that God's plan for him is another deployment of miracles.

Whatever you picture a deployment to be, it truly is just one day of hope into the next, God never leaves you and you struggle to keep positioned in Him... We are all in this together with Christ, we will courageously stand and we, like our warrior will fight the good fight of faith, because in the end... isn't that what life here is about until we get to heaven...

We do have so much to look forward to, until then, we have to get up off the floor put one hand into God's Sovereign will, the other hand into His Infinite Love and grow through the day.

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I belong to God... completely! I live my life for Him, enjoying each day and making the most of it as I look forward to my future and hope with Him forever.
I am a wife of 34 years, a mother and a grandmother.
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